Starship Captain: Adventure In Alpha Sector

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Starship Captain is an epic role-playing strategy game where you travel from between star systems in search of adventure. You start with a small ship and some money and work to build a fortune and see the universe.Along the way you can buy and sell cargo, accept missions, mine asteroids, attack and plunder other ships, upgrade your ship, and help others. You can talk to patrons of the spaceport bars to uncover multi-part missions and solve mysteries.Game features:• Buy cargo at one spaceport and take it to another to sell for a profit.• Accept missions to deliver strange and unusual cargo.• Talk to characters at spaceport bars to hire crew, find treasure and unravel mysteries.• Upgrade your ship’s weapons, armor, shields and engines.• Fight other ships to take their cargo with a unique simple combat system.• Fly around asteroid fields and mine them for ore and precious metals.• Manage your fuel, crew and other factors to maximize profit.• Play completely for free, or buy relativity crystals to speed up travel between distance star systems.Requires: iPad 2 or newer, iOS 8 or newer.

'Looks nice' ??
Are you an aquaintance of the developer. Cuz I dnt see any images... What makes you find the game nice??

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I couldn't see any images here either, but a simple Google showed the images, pretty simple. And "nice" because I like the game theme and think it could be interesting. If you find the game dev's blog, you'll learn a bit more about why the simple gfx, chances of better gfx and such. Just search instead of stopping at the game's thread

I'm a big FTL fan. I'll check this game tomorrow to see how similar it is to FTL, but space battles don't seem anywhere near FTL EDIT: played a bit. This has zero resemblance to FTL. It's more like Elite or Space Trader, with very simple gfx.

This looks nothing like FTL. Looks more like a generic trader - like the kind you get programmed into a TI83 calculator back in 1996. Not at all like FTL though.

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Let me educate you guys: this is a lot closer to Escape Velocity than FTL. I've been looking for an EV-alike for years. Unfortunately this being iPad-only it gets tossed into the same bin as the others...

I'm actually really enjoying the idea and simplicity of this game however just having one ship it's so slow. Are there any games similar to this that have you managing a larger Fleet? So perhaps I have a reason to log in more th an once ever 5 hours for 10 seconds.

I'm actually really enjoying the idea and simplicity of this game however just having one ship it's so slow. Are there any games similar to this that have you managing a larger Fleet? So perhaps I have a reason to log in more th an once ever 5 hours for 10 seconds.

It's a generic trader for sure.... It's too easy to get ahead for one, also the timers are ridiculous.... I'd rather pay a price and buy the game then wait hours for these jumps. Seems like a total robbery. Seriously, I played for like 20 minutes and went through all twenty.... It didn't force me but you have to make lots of jumps in the game, I'll be damned if I want to wait 1 to 2 minutes each jump, well that's if you stay in the same cluster of planets.... Go out of cluster say hello to five freaking hours for a wait. Ya. Deleted. Don't waste your time... Get the trees brothers space trader game.... It's phenomenal, always updates, the market is hard to control, the whole game changes if you just do one stupid backstab.... Get it.... This is crap... Space traders is good.....if you want space traders that is! These devs is straight greedy like a pimp, a bad pimp who only has one girl that's ass ugly and can't give a good HJ if her life depends on it.... You gotta pay rent so might as well extort the one or two weirdos gonna use her! That's this game! Don't condone prosititution! Ugly or not!

Truffled: Go get the Trese Brothers one: Space Trader RPG. I bought the elite right away years ago. The IAP in their game is only for cheating. So you don't need to buy it at all! I had to beg for awhile to get em to add it! I bet others were too though. You'll get hooked on this Space Trader RPG one....it's brilliant, lots of games have come out with the same idea but NONE are as good! That Galaxy on Fire is a game with the same premise and 3D but I play Space Trader more!

I'm in the same boats as those in the thread. About 10 years ago I found a game at www.spacepirate.com
It was an incredibly fun game. I was so hooked on it. One day it disappeared. The whole sight was "under construction"

Every couple years since then I've gone back to see if the site was back up. Finally, just today, I found this thread from a year ago. The creator of the game I had played explained what happened, and what he has created since then, based off the game.

I unfortunately do not have an ipad, however the predecessor to this game was so incredible that I would be willing to buy one just to try our this game.